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To Correct or Not to Correct...that is my question.
Who Is This Woman and What is She Blogging About?
34 years ago there was a little blue-eyed girl. Her eyes were so big and blue and perfect, that one of them thought it could just sit back and relax, rest on its laurels, you know...get lazy. In fact, Miss Lazy Left got so lazy, that after some time, she just sorta...checked out and went dark. The doctors called it "strabismus".
Now the little blue-eyed girl is all grown up, and even though she can't bring the light back to Miss Lazy Left, she has decided it is high time to at least set her straight. So, with a couple of snips and sutures, Miss Lazy Left is soon to be marching on the straight and narrow path so that the blue-eyed woman can move with just a little more grace, power, and confidence in the world. But she can't do it alone, and that's why she has invited all of you along for the journey.
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7 comments:
Hello there.... I noticed your blog and thought that I might let you know that I am following your story with great interest. I had two eye muscle operations and now do vision therapy four times a week. Based on my experience, I urge you to forget the surgery and locate a good vision therapist. The optometrist must be "F.C.O.V.D" and you must be willing to commit to a long term therapy program with a professional who will guide you through the process of learning to use both of your eyes together, as a team. Feel free to contact me for any other advice/information.
Hi Catholicoutsider - Thanks for visiting. I appreciate the advice but as I stated in my first post or thereabouts, I lost all but peripheral vision in my bad eye, so vision therapy would not work for me.
Have you visited a Vision Therapist?
(Fellow College of Visual Development).
If you lost all but peripheral vision then why are you choosing surgery? For cosmetic purposes? Do you have amblyopia? Has the eye been turned in since birth? Who said you only had peripheral vision? A surgeon or a Vision Therapist? There is a "HUGE" difference between the two.
I challenge you to find a Vision Therapist
(Fellow College of Visual Development) and blog about your experience. I had two eye operations and I now do vision therapy. I know the difference between the two, and once again, I urge you to visit a Vision Therapsit.
You should avoid having those tiny eye muscles cut. It's in your best interest.
Surgeons love to operate. It's what they do and of course, they enjoy billing insurance companies.
I can get names of vision therapists in your area. Vision improvement is a journey between your eyes, brain and body. It isn't about a quick fix eye muscle operation.
I am telling you the truth.
I'm aware of the various options available to me. I'm also aware of how vision works, and how it doesn't. I appreciate your advice but it makes me a little cautious that you are so vehement about this option. Vision therapists are no different than surgeons in terms of billing. Each medical specialist believes his/her way is the best (and only) way, and anyone who advocates just one way makes me nervous. Precisely why I'm choosing the group of surgeons I have. They are led by a Dr. who is constantly striving to find less invasive ways to correct misaligned eyes.
In answer to your question of why...yes, it is mostly cosmetic. Though there are other reasons as well. When I'm tired and my eye turns in more, it actually causes pain. I also tilt my head to one side a lot to try to compensate, and this causes neck problems. And whatever vision I do have remaining will benefit from my eyes being aligned properly. But because I don't have frontal vision, I can't get the eyes to align through trying to get them to work together. They do already move together.
No one needs to tell me that I have only peripheral vision. All I need to do is close my good eye and see that my vision is blacked out. Trust me, I've tried.
Honestly, it sounds like you have some vested interest in the vision therapy industry, and that makes me nervous.
Sorry about the wait and the mess up with your referal.
We planned on doing this in 2005, but instead I had a baby. And then I nursed him until November of last year. I knew we were about ready to wean, so I called towards the end of October. My first consultation appointment was in December. At that appointment I scheduled my surgery for March.
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Now, instead of the two weeks between eyes I need to wait four weeks. And it is taking longer than I had thought for the eyesight to improve.
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Waiting sucks, but it all does eventually happen.
Indeed, the waiting, and also the inordinate amount of time I constantly have to find to make these phone calls during the day.
Have you visited an Optometrist who is F.C.O.V.D to at least get another opinon?
I am someone who had two eye muscle operations and I am only trying to help you "see" that surgery may not be the best option.
To be honest it all comes down to you. If you want a quick one day surgery then go ahead.
I only know that I sure wish there was someone who "urged" me to visit a F.C.O.V.D optometrist rather than going for the one day quick fix surgery.
Good Luck!!!
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